My mac book air is stuck on question mark within a folder how do fix this, My mac book air is stuck on question mark within a folder how do fix this
i have tried every restart possible yet the folder keeps popping up. ocasionally it asks me to connect to the internet then a globe apears with an error code above it and i have to restart again. i think i may have erased everything including the start programs. is there any way i can fix this problem?
Your machiine doesn't find the operating system.
Try a restart wih the option key down. Normally, you should see two drives which are in fact two partitions on your disk. Select the Recover partition.
Look in the menus for "disk utility" and "repair permissions" (and drive if it is possible).
Then restart.
Hope this helps.
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